[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEUUseless laws weaken the necessary laws.
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I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself.
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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The less men think, the more they talk.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.
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Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
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The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.
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Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody
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Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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